Please let me know about the class sizes at Emory in sciences
@Simpson2019 : That is variable. Are you interested in certain departments or courses in particular? Let me know. For now, I will give lower division for each major department associated with say a pre-med track (CS and math are all over the place depending on what level entry you start. They both have honors courses and also, in the case of math, special interdisciplinary life sciences versions of calculus).
Biology: capped at 100, and all instructors allocate 100 seats (for upper level even the pre-med “bandwagon courses” like human physiology usually only have only 100 allocated), though some may only end up with 60 or so.
Chemistry: Capped at 100, but some faculty only allocate 72 (usually research faculty) or 60 seats (research or lecture faculty with heavy teaching loads).
Physics intro.: Migrated to large lecture sizes some years ago to save resources/have more upper division electives (physics is smaller and has a smaller faculty than say biology or chemistry): {hysics 141 (trig based) 220, Physics 151(calc. based) 150 (often misses this target).
Math: General Calculus 1/2: 30ish, Life Sciences calculus 2 (most pre-healths and bio/nbb majors take this version of calc. 2): 60
QTM 100: 60 (as of Fall 2019. Used to be much higher if I recall. Guess they are using the new faculty to reduce section sizes)
NBB: These courses tend to get big because NBB is interdisciplinary 2 of its core courses support 2-3 departments: NBB 201 (first core course): 160.
Note that these are SECTION size. An instructor may teach multiple sections, and still manage a lot of students between all of them. With that said, Emory has lower (as in 1/3-1/2 the size. Only course in line with peers is physics 141 and that used to not be the case. They used to have like 6-7 sections of 70-90) intro/intermediate STEM course section sizes than most similar sized peers (all research universities) and many instructors use that to make the classes far more interactive than a standard lecture. Intermediates and upper divisions can vary per semester/instructor offering the course. There are some who may do lecture style in fall with less interaction and decide they can teach 100+ and others who will do more interactive versions (cases, flipped classroom, pbl, etc) in spring (case and point: NBB 301) and decide they will cap enrollment of their rendition between 30-70. Most upper division seminar styled courses won’t allot over 40 seats and will often get less than that target.
To get more information, it may be more helpful to peruse the course atlas for Fall 2019 or this spring 2019: http://atlas.college.emory.edu/ and look for the disciplines or courses you (or whoever) may be interested in and then let me know. Note that this interface is nice but takes a while to load.
This really helps. Thank you so much.
@bernie12
Can I ask couple questions regarding the science classes. Unable to send message